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I had the... last night I was talking to one of my really good friends from back in high school and he's a teacher. So, what are you laughing about? That I have friends? No, we're watching you clapping on the podcast. Oh, nice. Awesome. So, one of my really good friends from high school, we grew up together. You know, I grew up in a town of 700 people. So it was, you know, he was a really good friend and I knew him all through school. And he's been watching our YouTube channel. He also watches the Fronos photo because I told him about it and he's into photography and stuff. So, I was talking to him last night and he wants to start a YouTube channel and he's a kindergarten teacher. So, you know, I was like... Right. Yeah, I'm like... Let me be your Sherpa. I'm drinking my lemonade and vodka and I'm talking it up and I'm just going nuts on ideas because it's so exciting. But then what I realized is as I'm going through, he's like, well, how did you do this with the podcast? How did you do that? And I'm thinking, well, we started with webcams and then we went to... I finally bought a camera and then so I kind of walked him through the last year and a half of this whole thing and realized it's pretty crazy how much stuff we've done. And then also yesterday I was putting together some stuff for American Sons doing a write-up and they wanted some pictures. So, I'm going through like our Facebook, like all the old pictures of just everything and I just look at like Thad on the stage at the Millennium Experience. I wish I could pull that picture up right now, but he's like this scrawny little guy. I didn't realize how tiny Thad was, but when you look at these pictures, it's hilarious. So, if you get a chance, go back and... You know what? I'll post it today. Scrawny Thad. Little scrawny Thad throwback Wednesday. Just go back to the wash house video that we did. Like that really shows it off or the product knowledge one's up front. Yeah, but I don't think... When you see this photo, Thad, you're like wearing like your dad's jacket or something. And I think he went and bought it and he spray painted it, but it's so big on him. It's like he's drowning in it. I was going to say, I have lots of pictures. Next year it'll be you. I'll be gigantic like Thad and Dustin. No, I won't. So, anyways, I got Brian Hare with me. Justin Scott, Drea Bolland, Thaddeus Bolland. So, we got a lot of things coming up, a lot of big things and seems like so far this year has just taken off and every week is a new opportunity. So, this is going to be a very exciting year. I'm watching everybody on the podcast right now talking. So, good morning to everyone that's following us live from Finland and everywhere else. So, and that's pretty much, you know, I'm very, very excited. We got ISSE coming up this weekend. I did a video for that. We're giving away furniture from Minerva there. We're going to be doing podcasts. I've every single person for the most part that I've reached out to and said, hey, I'm going to be there doing a podcast. Would you like to sit down? I've all said yes. So, I'm really excited to be there and hanging out with the Millennium Group because we're going to be at their booth. I think it's number 204, but don't quote me on that. But if you get a chance, stop by the booth. I would love to meet you guys and I'm thinking about just throwing people up and just saying, hey, let's just talk about the show. So, you know, that's what's going on. All right. Anything else? How was your week? It's been good. Been busy. I was saying, I was just telling some of the other day, another hairdresser friend of mine, that what's funny, now that the holidays are over, it feels like I'm dead, but really, I'm just back to my normal busy. Like the fact that I have time to maybe have a bite of a sandwich or run to the bathroom when I need to feels like we're dead. Yeah. I gotta say, as much as I enjoy December and Christmas and all that, I'm really glad it's over. I know. It's just a fun rush. You know what? It's because, for me, it's like, because of this, how it screws up the schedule. You know, like it's, I don't like, I like being in a routine even though I love change. I don't love like, okay, we got these two days off and then we got, you know, this. Right. So, it's just, it's confusing. And it also, you know, you make a lot of money right before the holiday, but then that little bit you also spend, you spend it all. Yeah, you spend it all and then all of a sudden, you're not as busy. So, that's what I said when the paychecks came last week, because of how it just fell with Christmas and New Year's this year. You missed this day. You missed that day. I was like, finally, this is the last interrupted paycheck. Now it's back to normal. Yeah. Yeah. Were you gonna say something? Sorry. No, I just gonna say how, you know, we, our guests are all coming in. It's after the holidays and they're talking about how relaxing their holiday was and they had this week off between like Christmas and New Year's and I'm like, wow. We were off for like 20 minutes because of Christmas. We need to do family haircuts around the Christmas tree. Yeah. And I'm like, huh, I'm like, I don't know what that feels like. I was like, my, my holiday was like so fast. Yeah. Somebody wrote, hey, no thumbs down today. Hey. Yeah. Yeah. Hala. Wait, do we not have it yet? No, we don't. Not yet. No, I mean. I think that guy we, we just put out my video that I find beyond funny. I didn't think I was even gonna enjoy the video, but yeah, pretty funny. I got two thumbs down. So I made a point that the guy made another count just to, you know, mess with. Wait, because you got thumbs. So, so Justin's new to the creating videos. This is second video. Yeah. So we're used to it. Were you super depressed when you saw, well, he's too tough for that. Yeah. I go into like drinking coma. No, we had to like have that, but ourselves in therapy after when I get to like 100 thumbs downs, I'm like, why are there so many people? Can you talk to me after work? I would really love that. I call my mom every day. Tell me I'm special. I got another thumbs down. It's like when I call my dad, I'm like, dad, this happened to me. He's like, god son of a. I'm like, dad, dad, you make me feel so much better. Like no matter what, he's on my side. It doesn't matter. So all right. So let's get into a little bit of feedback from last week and then we have some other cool stuff to talk about as well. This week, we've kind of crunched together feedback and questions because I didn't feel like sorting them out. So they're just like all together, even nice potpourri of social media interaction. Nice. Nice word choice there. While I'm thinking about it, did you cut your hair or is it just curled extra? It is cut a little shorter. I thought that this morning too and you colored it, right? Yeah, it is colored. It got cut last week, actually. Uh oh. Matt didn't do it. No, he's not. That's a good point. What? Who's cutting your hair? She is. She's doing it in the bathroom. Yeah. If I just do a little bit, they'll forget that I have long hair. Whatever. That apparently thinks he's the only one who can cut his own hair. It's true. Fair enough. All right. So for the jump off, one of the first questions that I saw, our girl Michelle Brisson asked, uh, when are we announcing the winner of the Mizetani contest? I threw this in there because I've had a couple other people ask me as well. Yeah. And I was like, just, it's coming. I don't know what the actual answer was. So since we had to sort through 5,000 videos, it's been. It's overwhelming. I'm just kidding. It was not that many. It was 11. But we have, so we have to sort through the videos and Kiyoshi from Mizetani is also watching the videos. So we're going to watch them. I'm going to connect with him this week. We'll be announcing the winner a week from today. So, you know, it's really up to when he says, Matt, I really love this one. I mean, it's his, he's giving away a thousand dollars and the scissors. So I just want to kind of need his input on that. Yeah. Like, we're just the channel with which he's doing this contest. Right. So, uh, so yeah, it'll be coming up this week. All right, cool. So stay tuned for that. Kiddos. Uh, Amarlin Stewart said, so excited to hear that you're going to be Long Beach Hair Show. Is your whole gang going or just you? Either way, it's all good. You guys are all awesome, talented, funny, and you know how to keep the passion alive. Thank you and can't wait to meet you. She's been around for a while. That's why I was glad that she commented and you're going to get to meet her. It's just me. He's actually just got a new carry on bag. No, that's all into. So like, is it just you or is like everybody going? Oh, I don't think I know. I know. I'm just kind of how she said it. Um, yeah, the rest of this will be holding down the fort. Yeah, because these guys fly everywhere all the time and we kind of can't keep up with that schedule. So he's got to work. This launch is going to be closed a lot. Yeah, we're on tour. Sorry, new hope. We're out of here. But yeah, well, there'll be more things in the future that will kind of rotate everybody, you know, going to things. But right now that comes with me, too, because he that's hilarious. So we're in that's hilarious. Yeah, that's hilarious. Nate's comic release. So we're not favorite. So I decided to bring this huge flight case with all the tripods and everything to the millennium event in Florida and not knowing or thinking about the fact that the flight case is already like 30 or 40 pounds on its own. So horrible decision. So then I throw in just, you know, a few tripods, some mikes, whatever, and we take it to the airport and I I put it up on the thing and the guy's like serious, like do you want me to get a freight truck for you? So but the funny thing is we get back. No, I don't need a freight truck. I have a sad we get back and there's like this girl. It's like super late and we get back to Newark and there's this girl standing there waiting for her bag and that's like standing next to her and I'm watching this whole thing from like 10 feet back and that's like already. You know what I'm talking about, don't you? Yeah, so this is one of the things where we didn't talk about this, but I saw it happening. So he's like standing next to this girl. He's got like his metal music and his earphones already and he's like pumped up ready for this like freight thing to come through and he's like I'm just going to need a little bit of space because I've got to grab this huge bag. So he so he the thing comes around. He's like he just muscles this thing and I mean it is it was 85 pounds. I'm picturing him doing push-ups waiting for the start like just to get ready the small girl next to him next time. Could you arm wrestle me real quick? I gotta get well. I just for solid like trying to grab it and then knocking her out like out of the way. I'd rather like give her like some warning. Yeah, but collateral damage. Yeah, you could have knocked her and then caught her and it would have been like you saved the day. She was like my mom's age. She was not your mom's. How old is your mom? I don't know. Oh, don't say that actually, but that's not a good subject to get on. She's not. She was like your age. No, she wasn't. Oh, how far away were you? I was far. I was far and late and I hadn't slept much. You did not want to be part collateral damage. All right. Well, that makes that story even funnier because you were impressing the mom. That's that's fantastic. She had a daughter, though. I didn't want to knock her out. That's great. All right. That's the one that goes with Matt because they've learned how to become travel buddies. I don't know which one of us would die first if Matt brought any of us on these travels or they sit in a car for 12 hours. We room together. Matt, how would you handle me for a trip? You wouldn't know. I don't. I haven't figured any of that out yet. That's why you're not on the intro. You haven't figured how to work with me yet. No, we had so but that's really great. And he knows how to run the cameras, which is, you know, a really big thing. It was like one of those things where nobody really wanted to learn to run the cameras. And then so and that did it. And then now it's become like a very valuable thing because somebody's got to run them and that knows how to set them up. He knows how to do all of it. So it's been really cool. I really enjoy having that with me because again, he's not scared to lift anything. And he, you know, he and I got to say from my own personal experience, he's a nice quiet roommate. I just remember the story last week. I don't know. I can picture you jumping on the bed. Like the entire time. That's pretty accurate. Are we going to go somewhere? Are we going to go somewhere? Are we going to go somewhere? Dad's like, dude, I'm going to bed. He puts his music on. Well, I don't know. I just, for some reason, the story popped into my head last week and we were joking about it. I don't know if you remember years ago, like I had only just met that. Like I'm Brian, I'm sad. That's it. I didn't work here. We didn't know each other. And we were both working and I check in and they're like, oh, by the way, the reservations are kind of messed up. You only have one bed. And I'm like, I remember that. And so I text that. I'm like, we only have one bed. I have never slept so far on the edge of a bed in my entire life. My favorite part is you guys really did sleep together. You didn't say can I have like you didn't take couch cushions off or anything. No, we made it work. We just slept. There was enough room for the rest of the team in between us on that bed. And he's like, just so you know, I listen to metal first thing in the morning. I'm like, that's fine. Yeah, he does. It's OK. And he does. He locks himself in the bathroom with the metal blaring off of his phone. And I'm just like, all right. Yeah, I like he was a great roommate. Yeah, but it's not like it was a luxurious weekend away. Like you were working a hair show. What time did you guys get up in the morning? Like what time did you get back? We slept together for like three hours a night. So it was a nap. Actually speaking of working a hair show the so 10 years ago, actually this coming IBS, International Beauty Show in New York City, I was there as an assistant and I had just moved to New Hope from Iowa. And so as a beauty school, like just graduated, started at this salon and the owner worked for Paul Mitchell. So he said, you know, I can get you assisting. Robert Cromings is going to be there so you can assist his team. And I was like blown away. I had no money, nothing. So I he put me in a hotel and when I tell you I thought me and him were staying together, he put me in a hotel like off of Times Square, like in the middle of an alley. And like you walk in and there was like bulletproof glass, like to check in. So they just kind of slide your key underneath and then that you walk up and there's a door to get in your room. And then there's another door to actually get in your room. So it was like double doored like with like a four foot gap so that it would take somebody longer to break in and get you. I mean, that's nice. Yeah, it was nice. That's a precaution. And because of that scarring experience, Matt only puts us in first class. Yeah. So I will take you guys when I can put you in the penthouse. Yeah. And and then he goes. So we go out that night and and have some fun, whatever. He goes and stays with Nina Covner, who at the time is like the vice president of Paul Mitchell and at the Marriott. And I he put me with two people I didn't know in the meth who he randomly selected who turned out to be really cool people. And I still know them to this day. But you know, he put me with them and I just slept and it was the worst conditions ever. But I got to assist at the show and it was awesome. And so now 10 years later, I just got an email this morning that says would you like to come back and I quote the same hotel. You're on your email list. Yeah, we would really love to have you back eligible for. So this is from we'll leave the name unknown for now until I know that I can say it because it's private. But it says Matt congratulations again for being named master of ceremonies for the 2015 International Beauty Show Main Stage. So I'm going to be the emcee of Main Stage IBS which 10 years ago I was assisting assisting getting pink hands feeling awful and sleeping in like, you know, a crack then and and now I just feel really, really lucky in the fact that, you know, I was asked to do this. I'm only second person to do it. And so they kind of passed the torch down and they're really excited to see what I'm going to do to try to make it fun and interactive and, you know, just bring something different to IBS. So I'm super excited about it. So that's in March. So if you guys get a chance to come to IBS in New York. That's really awesome. We're going to be hosting. I feel bad. I feel like we should. I almost wish it was like a surprise for us so that we could react how we actually reacted when you told us the first time. It's like awesome. Awesome. Yeah, I wasn't allowed. I wasn't allowed to tell anybody. So but now it's official. I got the official email. That's super awesome. You guys were in the loop way before. Yeah. I just to keep things exciting in between segments. You have the audience do push ups. Yeah, you can lead that. That. Why don't we bring some want to bring some Monday shirts? Yeah. They seem to be big. Oh yeah. We're going to be throwing out t-shirts and all kinds of t-shirt. I was just saying, can I be the t-shirt camera guy? Yeah. Yes. Yeah. We should get a t-shirt cannon. I was just going to say bring helmets. Yeah. I'm aiming for the kids. For the t-shirt. Thanks to Amazon Prime. We'll have one tomorrow. Yeah. T-shirt cannon for sure. We're going to get that. The drones will drop it off in the back. I should try to get a t-shirt cannon for ISSE. Yeah. All right. Just launching. This just got so cool. Launching t-shirts. Yeah. Sweet. Good job guys. All right. So we're still on feedback. Yeah, we're still going. Actually, I think Millennium has a t-shirt gun. They do? Yeah, but we need our own. I saw them using it at the experience. Maybe. We need the fist gun though. Like we need one that's like. Maybe we can borrow it. Can we buy the Hulk fist and like paint them teal and just shoot them? Yeah. Hulk hands everywhere. And I just totally did that on the show. Yes, you did. Twice. All right. Again, last week, I remember if I think it was last week, we were talking about fantasy colors and different ones. You were saying fantasy football. Yes, of course. We were. Last week, yeah. Doug. All right. So fantasy colors. Fantasy colors. Michelle Burson put up a picture. And what's funny is I noticed it as soon as she put it up and was like, I recognize that color scheme. Hey, guys, love the show. I've used the Joyco Color Intensity fashion colors and they rock. Here's a picture of some of the colors I played with. And I think that's kind of a familiar color scheme there with the blue and the purple and the pink. Yeah. Yeah, that's cool. It's pretty. I like it. Looks like Armanican. Yeah. All right. And then feedback. James Delman on and not sure which video. Oh, yeah. The Justin's Clipper video says, thanks for the info, Justin. Have a great night, day, night. Because if you when you watch the video, you got to stay through because Justin got a blooper reel. Yeah. And it was it's funny. It's much funnier on video because Dray and I are sitting there waiting to film and we're like, oh my god, stop saying night. Yeah. Stop saying night. And everyone have a great night. I'm like, I didn't hear the habit. This is YouTube. They watch all the time. It's like it's like a DVR. So he's like, all right, guys, we'll have a great night. I'm like, no, people only watch YouTube at night. All right, let's try it again. And he goes, all right, have a great day. That's not better. That's what I freak out and get bleeped. So it's really fun. And it was a cool video. I loved actually sitting there when I was editing it. You know, I kind of I thought we were going to have to like really splice it up, but it was very interesting the whole time. So I just left it 10 minutes. You know, I didn't want to cut it out too much because you break down both types of clippers, how to take them apart fully. And it's a really good detailed video. So I was really happy. I thought I messed it up, but I was actually impressed with it. Yeah. So watch that video if you haven't yet. And Michelle Golden says, Matt, I didn't know you're from Iowa. How cool. I'm in Ames, Iowa. I grew up in, well, I grew up in Illinois, but I went to beauty school in the Quad Cities, which is like on the edge of Iowa and Illinois. So, so yeah, I grew up there. I was 21 when I finally moved out. I'd never been on a plane, never done anything. So I made the jump here just for this career. So when we were getting coffee, Justin, I was just talking about you being from Iowa because he's going for some show and he's like, what's in Iowa? Are there cows? And I was like, there's like meth and cattle. Right. I said, I know there's cows because Matt and I have talked about cow tipping before. Beyond that, I don't know. But this was like, this was a big discussion I had because when I first moved here, I told everyone I was from Iowa, but I'm not really from Iowa. But I felt like if I say I'm from Illinois, everyone thinks Chicago and like I'm from this like, you know, crazy city or something. But when I say Iowa, they go, so there's cows. I'm like, yeah, that's where I grew up. Can we pause you? Yeah. We got, we got shirt cannons. You got it? I mean, I, this is fantastic. We got, he's like, we got shirt cannons. We got shirt cannons. We're both viewing them. So. How much is a shirt cannon? Well, the one we want, it's like it's, it's like an assault rifle for T shirt. Yes, guys. Yes. You know what? Just hand them here. You know what? Let's not even do the show anymore. Let's just talk about this. So. Shirt cannon. How much is it? Four grand. What? But this is like your shirt. Look, look, watch this. Watch this, watch this. Well, we can finance that. We can finance it. Yeah. Is that right off? Yeah. They have five easy payments. Look at that, look at that. Oh my God. That's a, okay. All right. That's a $4,000 cannon. You guys have no idea what we're talking about, but that's a pretty cool looking cat. We'll post it later. All right. I was going to say, can you save that because I'm kind of jealous that I'm not seeing it right now. Can you post that on Facebook right now? Drea? The like the link? Yeah. Just copy the link and paste it and paste it in Facebook. So going off of that, Denny Lane said, I want that shirt. Sure. But you got to take it from the cannon. Or take it off Justin. You have to take it off Justin. Or the cannon. All right. I'm just repeating what you said. Oh, okay. I was like, were you thinking that? No, actually I thought that this is a original statement you were going to say. I was like, oh, he said cat. No, he went there too. Justin actually thinks he's the third person. He does. Yeah. And then going off of that. Okay. Going off of that, Foxy Tay says, love the video a lot. I can't help myself, but you are super hot. With then four kissy emojis. She's going to thank you, Foxy. She will tackle you. You. Awesome. That's where the show went today. Yeah. I missed this one. All right. Shoot. I don't remember. Anissa. Shoot. Anissa. No, I think it was. Because she finally corrected me. She told me how to say it. Now I don't remember. You should save that in your notes. I think it's Anissa. Big A. Big A. There, problem solved. Big A. Great episode, guys. I was finally able to watch the episode live. I forgot to factor in different time zones. Oops, I'm in California. Oh, so super good morning to you. LOL, what are your favorite tips and tricks for vibrant, long-lasting regs? Reds. And do you process under heat? I guess with clients, the long-lasting reds that I always go for is those are the people that you kind of don't give the option of using professional grade products. You kind of make them understand like there's no point in even doing this unless you're literally going to use every single product and even start looking into every single tool that I use on you to make sure like if you need this red to last. Right. Then I need you using all the same stuff I do because if you came in here for your blowouts every day it would last better. Yeah. Yeah. Not wash it as often. Right. You know. Well, and the thing is reds are just as high maintenance as blondes. Blondes, you don't always have... They are a little bit more understanding so they'll come in a little bit more often. Right. People think reds are something simple and easy. They're not. They need their high maintenance. They need to be taken care of. They need refreshing. Just so you know, she's completely talking about herself. I am very high maintenance. She really is. And she's not understanding. No, I'm like, I just... No, she gets it. She knows. J.S.T. is on top of that red. I know. That's what's up. I was just talking about it in general. Oh. You know what? Brotherly love. All right. Pink Streets asks, what would be your advice for a student looking to find a receptionist position at a salon? Should I go to every salon with my resume and talk to the hiring managers? What are some tips you can share once I get into the receptionist role in order to make myself more valuable to my coworkers? Personally, I think if you're a student in school, you should probably go for more of an assistant position than a receptionist. Yeah. I mean, I understand. I think the front desk is a very important place that you need to understand what that's like. Because like here, we don't really have... I mean, I know we have Claudian now, but we all know how to do that. Like we all do that job. But in much bigger salons, it is not... It's not an easy job. But you got to think about too. Most people that are going to go get a receptionist job at a salon, most salons are not even utilizing the receptionist the way that they should. So you're going to sit there with nothing to do. You're going to be on Facebook the whole time. But I've also worked in big places that... I mean, that's like a very... Yeah, but you live in New Jersey. Right. You know what I mean? So there are... There's just a different... In Iowa, we didn't have a lot of huge salons. Most people were going... The majority of people that were graduating beauty school were going to work in a small place. So like if you go to get a receptionist job, but then if you work at a salon like you worked in, it was huge. I mean, you're going to have a lot to do. But that's not the majority of salons. I mean, I think the average salon in America has four chairs. So... But at the same time... Quarter six, I think. She said she's still in school. So you could take that as she's not a senior yet. So she's not actually able to touch a client, let alone shampoo, blow-dry, towel-dry, not to do a thing to a client. So at that point, I would say, definitely go in for a front desk receptionist position, kind of get your feet wet, see what the salon environment's all about. Then when you get your midway point, which most states do, you get your permit, which you can then work in the salon to assist. Then you can move up from there. I guess that's a different... Because Jersey's like that, but PA's not. Kathleen is not California. I know what California is. Florida is a lot of states are. You don't have to even go to school. I understand that, but I'm saying for those who are. Right. So, all right. The first part of that, we suggest getting an assistant position first. Yeah. If it's offered. If you can. If it's offered. If they don't have it in the salon that you want to go to, all right, then you start with reception. Yeah. Just to get yourself in the door if that's the salon you want to be in. As far as what you can do to be more valuable, we were just talking about this. Actually, I was talking with Claudia about this last week, because I actually became really, really good friends with one of the assistants. The receptionist at one of my old salons, and she just messaged me. She was coming out to get her hair cut in a couple of weeks. And one thing that I loved about her was, you know, she knew the flow of the salon. She knew the flow of my book. So there was never any, hey, who's supposed to be here? Like if that client was not there in 10 minutes, she knew how I booked what I was able to do. Yeah. And she would be on the phone before I even went to her. You know, well, if you can't get here in the next five minutes, then I have to reschedule you, or we can do a little bit fewer services or whatever. Just get to know the people that you're helping. Get to know the books that you're trying to book for, and ask them what they do. I mean, I've had receptionists come in and rate flashcards on the different stylists on how long they really need for a haircut and really need for this service, just to really get to know the environment to help make it run smoothly. Yeah, and they got to study. And then if you can start making decisions without going to the stylist every time, like you're saying kind of like, if you have to go to them every five minutes, you're like, ah, she's five minutes late. Should I call her? Should I call her? Should I call her? I don't know what to do. Or what is... Ask the stylist what they want. Yeah. Like that was my thing. At 10 minutes, there's a phone call finding out where they are. Yeah. And if they're more than five minutes out for this blowout, then guess what? I can't do it in eight minutes. Yeah. And that's based on your day. So the thing I don't like is when stylists are like, oh, she's 15 minutes late. They got nothing else to do for the day. And they're like, I don't want to take her because she's late or whatever. Like life happens and you should just, you should take them if you can. But when you booked back to back, I mean, that's just, you know, that's an easy phone call because you're not trying to be mean to them. You're just saying, you know, I'm booked fully throughout the day. So I can't, I don't want to rush what I need to do to you. And I don't want to step on the next person that's coming in. Exactly. And the biggest question, the biggest statement I have for anybody saying as a student is, don't lose focus of being a student. That's what I see a lot happen as long as an instructor, as a stylist, as a barber, whatever job I've had. People who are students, they get their feet wet in the industry and they lose complete and total focus of being a student. They don't keep up on studying to pass their boards. They don't keep up on anything they really have to. They start taking days off school to be at work. Any boss who knows you're a student shouldn't ever ask you to take time away from that school to be at work. So if you're finding you're in those positions, get out of it. You know, I mean, they don't care about you passing, graduating or being anything more than an assistant to them, I feel, you know, in those aspects. So I mean, don't lose focus of that. If you can't get a license, it's no point to know how to do really cool haircuts or color techniques. If you can't actually put it to use. Yeah, and you make a good point because I think students, like you're just getting through school, you're trying to learn the 90 degree haircut and all that stuff and whatever to pass your state board. But they really need to utilize that time to focus on learning all the time because then if you step out of school, you could learn so much in that year or year and a half that you're in school. But most people just kind of dick around. They don't do anything, right? You know, and they're out smoking cigarettes, doing whatever and just taking a client randomly whenever they can to do that next shampoo and set. When really you have a whole entire school full of, and I'm not saying that they're all, you know, fantastic, but you have minds that have been in the industry for a long time that you can pick their brains the entire time you're in school and learn from them. Everyone's got something that can teach you. Yeah. And like I know, I think the big difference that I saw between like myself and a couple other people, when you first get on the floor somewhere, whether it's as an assistant or doing whatever, you should be, I guess, nervous just because it's your first time doing this haircut without the waiver and not because it's your first time doing this haircut ever. Right. Spend your time in school doing everything. You know, make yourself uncomfortable. Do the stuff that you're like, that you know you're not good at because you haven't done it yet. You know, like don't, I don't know, do a relaxer. Yeah, don't tell yourself. Do a stack, do a mullet. Do everything that you can while you're in school so that when you get out of school it's never your first time doing something. Right. Okay, cool. Just throwing that out there. Why don't you jump on to the next one? Zach, can you hit that camera in the back real quick? I need to adjust something. We're having a couple sound crackling things so I just want to... All right. Moving on. Again, while we were talking about fashion colors and actually this could pertain to the redhead question as well. Wisconsin Donna said fashion colors are a stain. See what you did there. Color molecules are large and meant to wash out. They sit between the open cuticle think of a ball in an open doorway. So if you close the cuticle or seal it, the color is just going to wash out faster. She suggests, and I back her up on this, use cold water. Don't shampoo as much as you can. Use toning conditioners and then talk about dry shampoo because I'm seeing more, I feel like every day I go on Instagram there's just more and more people doing fashion colors. Yeah. Yeah. Which I love, which is great. Super exciting. But we definitely need to have that in our arsenal. Get to know whatever color line you're using. Talk to them about shampooing. Force them to do it with cold water, which I know sucks because it's winter. Well, you also have to clarify too because I tell clients all the time, make sure you shampoo cold water. I don't take cold shower. You don't have to. Just shampoo and rinse with cold water. It's not that hard. Go to your head over the time. I've washed my hair in the kitchen sink because... Yeah, because you wanted to hang on to your color. Because that was taking too long in the bathroom, we know. Obviously. Yeah, I mean because you think about it like what she's saying with just picturing it. We've all seen the up-close pictures of what hair looks like with the cuticle. It looks like an artichoke with the little thing. It looks like an artichoke. It does. And, you know, when you're... Most of these fashion colors, I can't really think of one that's not. They're all, you know, just that... What is it? Direct dyeing? The one that just is what it is. It looks like that color. It doesn't need to process. So it's just big, fat color molecules that just get under there and then just sit there as long as they can, depending on the shape of the hair and what you do is going to be how long it lasts. I always, with those situations, I totally get a little hair school 101 with them. You know, what lifts up the cuticle, what's going to make these color molecules fall out faster, and that'll go for your fashion colors. It'll go for your redheads. Just color longevity in general. And Matt's ready to rumble. And you couldn't see that. I just unzip my... This was... I was just unzipping this. Not anything else. Yeah. Yeah. That's his signal. He's got an arm muscle fad right now. Cleavage. Yeah. Cleavage. All right. So that's pretty much... I think that pretty much covers most of social media stuff. Yeah. Okay. So thank you guys. Keep it coming. So I hope the sound is good. All right. Cool. Crackling gone. Sound is good. Fantastic. I love watching... This live feed thing rules. I know. I'm so excited about it. And I love seeing everyone talking on there. So a couple of things with Mizutani. We got the new spray bottle. I love them. They are so cool. It's the cutest little thing I've ever seen in my life. Well, I loved the way the old spray bottles sprayed. Yeah. Now I love the way these look. Okay. Yeah. Does it spray the same? I think it's cooler than matte black. It does spray the same. It misses the same. There's so much electronic equipment around here. I'm like the who at the end. We'll just knock all the cameras over. So... But yeah, this is a cool bottle. I like this thing a lot. We just got it in, so I haven't had a chance to really use it yet, but that was really nice. And I got to be honest, I love that it's small, because it'll keep you from putting so much water in it that it goes stale and starts to smell. Yeah, I could do it on people. That's disgusting. I also like that it's black, because it's not going to show any color. The color spots that we got all over the white ones. Yeah, that. Yesterday I did her hair, and I was like that wipe this white bottle off. So these will be available on shopfsc.com soon, but they haven't got it in the big shipment. It's on the boat on its way over. These are overnight pops from Japan. And I got a picture sent to me from Kiyoshi the other day, and it was the gold scissor with the fist logo on it. So pretty sweet. So that'll be available coming up in the next couple of months. You'll be able to get the limited edition FSE gold, matte gold scissor. I love that it's matte gold. Too legit. It's fine. Matt, can you just go, I like gold. Why would I do that? I was like, what is he doing? I got them for the scissors. Come on, bed, show my boots. I love my boots. Can we get an embroidered fist on the boots? Yes. So let's see. So that and then I want to talk about texture scissors a little bit. I'm having a heart attack. I don't like this. So we have a bunch of different types of texture scissors, and I wanted to just break them down a little bit. Brian has a couple as well. So the key things I think you need to look for when you're looking at a texture scissor is there's different types. This one is the Acro Leaf Wide texture scissor. All Mizutani texture scissors have actual grooves. The teeth are almost like a saw. And so when you're cutting down on the hair, it actually grips onto the hair instead of letting it slide at all. And that's why you get that smooth cut when you flow through it. And I love having the dry cutting blade on the scissor at the same time. This is the M50 Acro Leaf Wide texture scissor. And then we also have the Acro Yoragi 10. I use the 0, the 10, and the 6. But these are just the standard one. But I love the slip on the teeth. And you can even see that there's an edge. There's like a longer tooth on it. You're not going to be able to see it. But there's a longer tooth which grips it even more as you're cutting through. So the detail that goes into Mizutani scissors is ridiculous. And that's the cool thing about Mizutani is every bit of these are done by hand. So all of them, the amount of detail that goes into it. Most companies are going to China and then they're getting scissors for $30, selling them for $500, and making a lot of money. And I'm not going to name those companies, but that's what I love about Mizutani. It's all handmade. And that's why it's the best quality scissors you can get. So legit. Too legit. Too quick. Do you want me to talk about mine? Yep. So this was my Christmas present. I feel bad because I'm just now realizing I have no idea what they are. Like name-wise. But I have been playing with them a lot. Yours are one of the kinds. Really? Yeah, they were developed. Somebody developed them and then never got them. Yay. So it doesn't matter what they are because you can't have them. But anybody can design. That's the other thing about Mizutani is if you have an idea, you can take it to them and they can create it for you because what's the difference? They're doing it by hand anyways. You just have to wait. For me, it was just learning the difference between because I don't know how well you can see them at all. The little texture side of it. One side does have like you were talking about the little grooves in the teeth. And then it's got these nice big pits down at the bottom where they go to. Like rather than just a strong stripe, it's got like this little pool, this little ball down at the end. And what I've noticed when I use this, I've been loving using these on really thick textures, really like curly textures for going in. And then that little pit down at the end just makes it so that it's not really holding the hair anymore. So I can just glide this shears right back out after I dry cut them. And it just helps to take. It just makes a really chunky piece. I've actually been enjoying these a lot on bangs. Okay. Because it really, it's for the noticeable texture. Whereas these, it's much finer. It still has the little pits at the bottom so it helps to glide out afterwards. But if you can see, it's like really tight, thin little lines that sort of skip. I don't know why it just reminds me of music notes. This I'm noticing on like finer hair when I want to take texture out without necessarily seeing the texture that I'm putting into it. When I want to sort of just thin the hairs because I hate people saying that. That's the only visual that's popping into my brain. When I feel like I want to take out but not see like crazy PC texture just to like soften the edges. That's what I'm noticing. I like the smaller ones for. Yeah. And that's, so those little pits are, you know, because a lot of texture scissors, even if you look at these on the Mizutani scissors, there's a blade. So like there is a gap in here where hair can slide through. But no matter what, you're sliding hair along that blade. So it's going to have some kind of pull. If the blade is not sharp enough, that's when you're going to get the tugging in there. You're also going to get a lot of stylus when they're cutting with a texture scissor and they go to slide through and it snags. It's almost like it ripped out one single hair. That's because the teeth didn't have the grip on them to actually cut the hair off before it got through. But when you look at like the Type Z dual, you've used this, right? Yeah. So this one, when it closes down, it cuts only the hair that it's cutting and then it's all open. It's open air. So you can slide right through and you don't have to worry about a blade sliding up against the hair and cutting extra hair that you didn't want to do. Right. So, you know, there's so many benefits to this and it's such a cool scissor. This one just came out and I just did a review. I did kind of a review on it. I want to start doing haircuts with it. I said, do you use that a lot? I do. Yeah. This is the one my go-to. I said that would be your go-to for like if you're doing like a blending a line in on let's say a shorter haircut. Yeah. Yeah. It is. I do like because it has a lot of teeth, you know. Usually a 32, 42 shears what you'd be using to blend in like a tapered men's haircut. Yeah. And it blends really well. So one thing I want to say, it sounds so silly and so stupid to say it, but I just that's how I live my life. Okay. Another thing to be careful of, like there's a whole lot here, but maybe you don't always utilize all of it because it really sucks. And you go to like slide out of someone's hair but you came so far down the blades that they get the hair and the hinge. Yeah. Like I know it sounds silly, but if you really just try to grab a whole ponytail with this, like you're going to get hair down in the hinge and then when you pull that sucks. No one's happy. Pulls their hair. And lines free now. Isn't helping. So just utilize the blade and just the blade. Don't go too far. Yeah. And to answer the question about international shipping on the scissors, the problem, the reason I do not do international shipping right now is because I only have the rights to sell Mizutani in the United States. So there's different distributors of Mizutani scissors. There's some and you know, they're all over the world. I work with Kiyoshi who is North America. So I don't have a relationship with Mizutani anywhere else. So that covers us, Canada. Yeah. And that's it? Yep. Okay. So where do you take your scissors to get sharpened? Does Mizutani offer sharpening? They do. And they have somebody that they recommend. All you have to do is send. If you buy Mizutani scissors, then you send them to Mizutani and they get them sharpened for you and then they send them back. I would highly recommend that. I also got a name from Josh XO. The other night when we were talking on the phone about a guy, I think his name is Brent, that's going to be at ISSE and he's like the best sharpener there is, I guess. So I want to sit down with him hopefully for a podcast. But because it's really important and that's one of the biggest questions is who sharpened. I was actually going to... Sorry, Brian. Say, can we do a video on the importance of sharpening shears and the right way to do it? I mean, maybe you could bring your... You're going to have your video stuff there, right? Yeah. Can we have him like have a sit down and talk to people about that? Because I see that all the time these people... I hope so, yeah. Whether they're like a one-year stylist or like a 15-year stylist, they don't realize how important it is to get your shear sharpened by someone who knows what they're doing and then they get their shears back and they don't realize how bludgeoned they are. Yeah. And I mean, obviously, we all know don't give them to the guy that goes in the van and does it. But we don't know the guy that brings in the fancy equipment, says he's the world's best sharpener and I have so many awards and oh my God, I'm like the best. And then he takes your nice pointed scissors and goes... Yeah. So you have to... You have no idea. I heard about that. Maybe there's key things that you should be looking for in a sharpener or there should be a website that has like... I think I just found our new venture. Oh, yeah. How's your set? No, I'm not getting into that. But there should be. So if somebody make it, a website of the best sharpeners, there are so that we know that they're quality ones. We can review them. What was it? Oh, do we yet? Because I don't think we've sent any off, but have we been told is there like an estimated turnaround time for sending scissors back to Mizutani? What to expect? I think it takes about a week, seven to 10 days. Okay. It's not long. All right. So start to finish. Maybe expect like give yourself two weeks. Yeah, I would say two weeks is a comfortable thing. And they, it depends on where you are in the country. So they're in San Francisco. So if you're close to that, but I think they send them to a sharpener in North Carolina. So... Wow. Relationships. So he's the best. North Carolina. They recommend that I think it's like every six years or so, you send them to Japan and they will completely redo the screws for you and completely like make the scissor brand new. So I love this company. Yeah. It's really awesome. Matt, you had a follow up question about international shipping on other stuff other than scissors, shirts, etc. So here's another problem is when you have an e-commerce store, I use a company to create that store. I can't just say, as of right now, I can't say, okay, you can buy t-shirts internationally, but you can't buy scissors. So right now, if I say internationally, you can buy stuff, then it's everything. I don't have a way to change each product. So I'm working on it. You know, eventually it will happen because I've really, I want everyone to be able to get the stuff, obviously, that would be better for everyone. I want to see our shirt in front of the Eiffel Tower. Yeah. Yeah. Who can make that happen? If you send me, I'll do it. I was going to say, I might be... I might be on the way. I'll just bring mine. You want me to just, I got one. I'll go to the Great Wall. Okay. Okay. That can go to Australia. That can fight a kangaroo. Send me to the place with all the poisonous things in the world. Because that's terrified of Australia. Is he really? Because everything that could ever kill a human being is in Australia. Nice. Are you afraid of dying? He's just afraid of Australia. It's painful deaths. It's big sharks and gators and jellyfish and... I'll go to Australia gladly. It's awesome there in all those spiders. It's beautiful. Let's go. Mostly spiders. I'll be like that. Our next trip is... I'll show you. Justin can go first chance. Anyone else can go. Hello. Anyone else can go. Dad's like, I'll pay for one of them to go. All right. Do you want to go over? I want to do trending tresses because we got five minutes. Let's do trending tresses and we'll... No mallets today, Matt. Sorry. I can do Big Ben. What's Big Ben? Big Ben, like in... Clients here, I don't think. London? London? The big clock? Big Ben, yeah, the big, huge clock. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. I don't know anything. That's all right. They didn't... I know how to cow tip. I know how to cow tip. Oh, man. Is the door locked? I don't think so. All right. Yeah, the navets were good. Okay. So, trending tresses? It's not that cool, though. Yeah. Time for trending tresses. All right. First off, we have Kate Boesworth, who has adorable Bob that I love. It's just got a lot of texture. It's PC. It's fun. It's slightly shorter in the back, longer in the front, but it's not exaggerated. So, I thought that was fun. Question. Yeah. When someone brings you this picture, how are you going to cut that? Because that cute look is through styling. I feel like more so than a cut. So, what are you going to... How are you going to cut that to give that to someone before you teach them how to style it? Well, you have to... I mean, it is a cut, obviously. Right. But then you have to teach them to style it. But then you have to teach them to style it. You've got to educate them. Right. So, is there anything special that you would recommend doing to that cut to make it so that it's possible for them to style it that way? I think you add a lot of texture to it. Being able to... I think that's... It's not an undercut. It's more of like kind of a fatter Bob. She doesn't look like she has a ton of hair. I can't really... I'm looking from a... It's on the finer side. I have a hard time from 10 feet away. Just judging women, I guess. But she looks like... Yeah, she doesn't look like she has a ton of hair. You didn't need to do the undercut. And I think the new trend right now is kind of... I've seen Ira doing it a lot, like the fatter shapes at the bottom. So, forever, we've been talking about you got to get rid of that Christmas tree shape and cut all that weight out. And now it's like... Bring it back. Let's fatten it up. So... I got to say, it almost looks like in the front, they accidentally took the front a little too short when they were creating the texture on this. Yeah. Like the line of it kind of doesn't come all the way forward before it jumps back up. Yeah, I noticed that as well. Yeah. I mean, I've done that actually. I like it though, because it kind of softens the face. Instead of having that harsh front, it gives it a little softer feel. Lightens it. Yeah. Almost like a bang. Plus, if you cut it and it was all the weight was pushed forward, the challenge that you're going to have is when you go to style, it's just always going to be in your face. If you cut it to kind of have that weight shift back just in the front, then you can have that little messy texture and it stays where it needs to be. You know what I mean? Like... So, I think it was probably purposely done, I would hope. But for that reason, so that they could have that softer feel back here instead of having it all up in the front. Well, what I love also about this is you can do the messy, tousled look. You can do big curls with this. And you can wear it smooth and straight. There's so many options within this cut. Versus so many bobs before in the past have always been just smooth, straight, classic. Yeah. You know what I love? You love a trending dress. Shut up. She doesn't hate this one. Like a lot of things. James. James says, I swear everyone knew... Or I swore everyone knew what Big Ben was, but obviously not. No, it's trending. Sorry, James. We knew. Yeah. What was your code word for him last week? Sweet potato. Sweet potato? Sweet potato. All right. So, next up we have Chris Hemsworth, who has cut his hair off into a nice little short crew cut. He, in an interview... This is done playing Thor. Yeah, in an interview he said how he felt like he was losing his Thor powers when cutting his hair. He did state how he loved his long hair and it was epically awesome, but unless you have a stylist following you around styling it, on the day to day it was not very practical. Act like you couldn't afford that. Did he say epically awesome? I may have ad-libbed that. I say, did him and Thad sit down and talk about hair? Something he didn't say. That is hashtag epically awesome. That's hilarious. I like him with the short hair. I'm glad. I think it makes him look younger. Finn's at his face too. All right. All right. We got an average. All right. Moving on. Brooklyn Decker took off about a foot of hair off of her length and it's a nice, another cute little soft bob happening. Yeah. That's nice. That's all I got. That's wrong. Of course, Andrea's so good at getting the worst picture possible of a human being. I follow her on Instagram. There's like 95 good pictures of her with this hair color. I got distracted. I'm sorry. Like if you just do this and cover the face and torso, the hair color is really nice. I really like the hair color. That's about it though. Oh, Nicole. I love Nicole Richie. Just because you don't like her, doesn't mean... I don't like, I don't dislike her. It's a cool color. Thad, we're on the next one. Oh, my bad. You didn't say me. That's true. They didn't say a name. Thad, Nicole Richie. Nicole Richie has teal hair. Yes. Okay. Next one. Okay. Moving. And then Emily Blunt is going back to her Blonder Shades with lots of... It seems to be a ton of Baleage ombre in there. So that's... The hair color looks great. Yeah, I don't love that color on her, but I mean, again, it's a picture. It might be a bad shot. Yeah. It's horrible. Like the flash might be a little too bright for that because... It's just a transition. Yeah. All right, cool. So, all right. We're going to spin the wheel. So, Dre, did you pick somebody? I did pick somebody. And we have... Brian got a package today. Yeah, we got a surprise for Brian. Oh, yeah. So, you can open it. So, Brian got a package. This is something very exciting for him. Although, I don't know. It might be terribly disappointing when we see. So, he decided he wanted to have dreadlocks. So, he's going to... I can't wait to put these in his hair. So, he Beyonce'd it and got some... Yeah, I'm not going to grow my own dreadlocks. That's going to take too long. Right. So, he ordered some dreadlocks. So, we'll see... It's been 32 years to get my hair this long. When you get bored of that, we can put them in my beard. Oh, yeah. It's going to look ridiculous. It's going to look so ridiculous. They look like string. It is string. That's what dreadlocks look like. No. That looks like a rope that you would play tug of war with. Yeah. That is not a dreadlock. Those look so fake. They really do. They are. Who cares? It'll be fun. All right. Whatever. Has Brian ever come to be natural? Okay, let's spin the wheel. So, Thad, do you want to get the wheel up there? And who do we pick? Morgan and Elizabeth Johnson. So, Morgan, who's been a long-time follower, super exciting. She has a chance to win a cutting stool from MinervaBeauty.com, a Bolly Box or a Amiga five-piece iron wand set. We also have on the wheel millennium systems international, three months free of Mevo. So many different things. FSC, T-shirts, all that stuff. So, Dread, you want to stand up and give it a... And here we go. What do they get? What do they get? And the winner is... T-shirt. Boom. Good take to the Eiffel Tower. Or Big Ben in Iowa. I will not send this shirt unless you wear it at the Eiffel Tower. So... James got Big Ben. They got that covered. Yeah. We'll send James a shirt and he can take a picture in front of that. There you go. And then anybody else that lives somewhere cool, we would like to send you a shirt to wear in front of it as well. And if you don't wear it, we'll find you. Fair enough. Hashtag wear in the world is something to just wear in the world. But W-E-A-R. Wait, we don't have to send T-shirts. Well, just true. That's good. We'll put the T-shirts on, drop the green screen, and we'll be anywhere we want to be. That's true, Justin. I'm in Delaware. Hi. Okay, so thank you guys. Don't take a picture. We're going to send you a bill. It's freezing cold outside. I think we have guests out there. They went to Starbucks. They did. Oh, okay. So thank you guys so much for watching. Follow Brian Hair. Brian. At Hairstyle. Follow Brian Hair. At Hairstyle. Justin Scott. At, uh, what was it? Did you change it? No, it's still Tom McCartney 666. I know. He needs to change it. Dreia. Dreia 82289. Thaddeus. That bullenized. That bullenized. And follow us at Free Salon Education. Follow us on Hairbrain.me, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. We got nominated for another Hairbrained video award. So we'll be at that party as well. So many different things coming up. I can't even tell you how excited I am about even just today. Oh my God, this is going to be. This is going to be majestic. This is, uh. Can this happen today? No, it's going to. You know it's happening today. He's got no patience. Yeah, I had to cancelation. So yeah, this is going to happen. I'm going to cut his hair and put some dreads in. Thank you guys so much for watching Splitting Hares. We're going to, and everybody that followed live, I love that, watching everyone talking and just chatting away and helping us with questions. I had a lot of fun this episode. Did you guys have fun? All right, heck yeah. Yeah, I don't want it to end. I don't even want to do hair. I just want to sit here. Hang out all day. All right, guys. I will see you guys on the next episode and hopefully we'll see you at ISSE this weekend. Yeah, this weekend. Bye. Bye.